This decision is an existential threat to democracy and civil rights.
Ketanji Brown Jackson: “This decision is an existential threat to democracy and civil rights.”
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Jackson describes the ruling as a serious danger to democratic institutions.
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A zone of lawlessness within which the Executive has the prerogative to take or leave the law as it wishes
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